Service providers are under pressure to ensure that their
networks efficiently deliver high throughput and avoid bottlenecks. Overcoming
this challenge makes it the most critical piece for improving data center
application performance. To address this demand, service providers are
distributing their data centers at the edge to lower the latency and improve
performance of their mission critical applications such as NFV, AR/VR, IoT and
financial applications.

Sophisticated end-to-end network slicing is supported
natively in the fabric with full tenant isolation down to the hardware level
for better security. Network slicing is a key innovative aspect of 5G
architectures that provides customers their own virtual network slice for
better quality of experience.

“Our CEF solution was designed in collaboration with our
customers and partners to address the key requirements for the cloud edge
market, such as lowering latency and improving performance at a lower price. We
believe that automation, unified VNF/CNF, programmability and network slicing
will disrupt the way service providers deploy and manage cloud edge data
centers,” said Laurent Marchand, CEO at Kaloom.

Kaloom’s CEF complements the Kaloom Software Defined Fabric™
(SDF) which is more suited for large scale data centers. However, the same core
attributes remain including programmability, automation, white box networking,
data plane offloading and virtual components (i.e. vRouters, vSwitchs and vGWs)
integration. The SDF is optimized on the Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform
and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® to enable control and better support for
Kubernetes environments. The CEF also supports sophisticated services chaining
and in-band telemetry to improve overall networking efficiency. Hybrid 4G and
5G infrastructures can be supported with a unified VNF and CNF fabric
architecture. Kaloom CEF and SDF on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and
Red Hat OpenStack Platform can run network functions in virtual machines (VNFs)
as well as hosting them in containers .

Kaloom introduces an industry first with UPF

Kaloom’s UPF is extremely scalable and fast, helping
carriers to offload and scale packet core applications at the network edge. UPF
is provided on the programmable CEF platform and runs standard P4 programming
language to allow customers to add new functionality. This enables them to
differentiate their products to address changing demands, and in doing so,
allows the introduction of third-party innovation, something which they have
traditionally been unable to do.

“We expect the total service provider NFV market revenue for
the purchase of hardware, software, and services to triple from 2017 to 2022,”
said Joshua Bancroft, senior research analyst, cloud and data center research,
IHS Markit, a global business information provider. “New requirements such as
low latency, automated deployment and containerized infrastructure are becoming
key to enabling and supporting AI/ML, IoT, 5G, VNFs/CNFs.”

“Kaloom’s innovative SDF is now complemented with the CEF to
provide a suite of fully automated DC fabric products for core and edge
deployments. A low latency, automated deployment with the ability to host both
VNF and CNF environments in a unified way will greatly benefit edge
applications like AI, ML, IoT and 5G.” said Paul Parker-Johnson, Principal
Analyst with ACG Research.

"Red Hat is pleased to extend our collaboration with
Kaloom around software-driven networking solutions for the core and network
edge optimized on Red Hat’s open technologies,” said Chris Wright, chief
technology officer at Red Hat. “Our work
together in open source communities shows our shared commitment to moving
networking capabilities in Linux and containers forward, towards an automated,
unified approach to VNFs and CNFs based on open standards."